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Amazon is shutting down its "Prime Try Before You Buy" service on January 31, according to a notice on its website. The offering operated similarly to apparel subscription services like Stitch Fix and Rent the Runway, allowing Prime members to try out apparel-related products and only pay for items they wanted to keep. CNBC reports: An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the move, which was first reported by The Information. "Given the combination of Try Before You Buy only scaling to a limited number of items and customers increasingly using our new AI-powered features like virtual try-on, personalized size recommendations, review highlights, and improved size charts to make sure they find the right fit, we're phasing out the Try Before You Buy option, effective January 31, 2025," the spokesperson told CNBC in a statement. Amazon rolled out the service, which was previously called Prime Wardrobe, in 2017. It was only available to members of Amazon's $139-per-year Prime subscription program, which also includes perks such as speedy shipping and access to streaming services. Users could test out a mix of luxury, staple and Amazon-owned brands, and return whatever they didn't want to keep for free within seven days of receiving the items. The service operated similarly to wardrobe subscription services including Stitch Fix and Rent the Runway, as well as newer entrants such as Urban Outfitters' Nuuly.

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When Prince Harry first released Spare two years ago, the Place stayed silent and did not comment.

The honors are dubious, but boy, so is the tech

ces  The Consumer Electronics Show is back to showcase not just the cutting edge of innovation but also the worst of what's possible when modern tech collides with today's culture of capitalist excess.…

Surgeons who collated data on severe facial injuries caused by the machines have called for tougher implementation of drink-driving laws, and say riders should also be tested for drug use.

Researchers have shown that leftover crusts can be fermented to make a lab-based protein to be used in the likes of pork pies and sausages in a development that could help reduce waste.

Five of the ten most visited health conditions on the NHS website mostly affect youngsters - including scarlet fever, slapped cheek syndrome and hand, foot and mouth disease.

The Reform UK leader lashed out at US politicians earlier in the week for supporting Tommy Robinson as he tried to mend his relationship with Musk.

For centuries he has been celebrated across the world for his plain-speaking verse and wry observations on the human condition.

Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh?

While Google awaits a decision about whether it will be required to sell its Chrome browser as an antitrust remedy, the search giant has joined with the Linux Foundation to announce an initiative to support the open source Chromium project upon which the Chrome browser depends.…

A law that would effectively ban TikTok if it isn't sole by January 19 will go into effect within days without action by the Supreme Court, who heard arguments on the case Friday.

A Premier League footballer was reportedly arrested on the training pitch this week, with the star taken in on suspicion of allegedly making a sex tape without consent.

In a recent picture she shared on Instagram, Natasha's changed appearance caught the attention from her fans as some admitted they couldn't even recognise her.

Dritan Rexhepi, nicknamed the 'King of Cocaine', had been on the run for over 27 years and was wanted in four countries.

Author Dominic Holland summed up the challenges yesterday, when recalling his own proposal 30 years ago: 'For most blokes, the stress of purchasing an engagement ring is being able to afford it.'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data -- including some Social Security Numbers and medical info -- stolen. PowerSchool says its cloud-based student information system is used by 18,000 customers around the globe, including the US and Canada, to handle grading, attendance records, and personal information of more than 60 million K-12 students and teachers. On December 28 someone managed to get into its systems and access their contents "using a compromised credential," the California-based biz told its clients in an email seen by Register this week. [...] "We believe the unauthorized actor extracted two tables within the student information system database," a spokesperson told us. "These tables primarily include contact information with data elements such as name and address information for families and educators. "For a certain subset of the customers, these tables may also include Social Security Number, other personally identifiable information, and limited medical and grade information. "Not all PowerSchool student information system customers were impacted, and we anticipate that only a subset of impacted customers will have notification obligations." While the company has tightened security measures and offered identity protection services to affected individuals, cybersecurity firm Cyble suggests the intrusion "may have been more serious and gone on much longer than has been publicly acknowledged so far," reports The Register. The cybersecurity vendor says the intrusion could have occurred as far back as June 16, 2011, with it ending on January 2 of this year. "Critical systems and applications such as Oracle Netsuite ERP, HR software UltiPro, Zoom, Slack, Jira, GitLab, and sensitive credentials for platforms like Microsoft login, LogMeIn, Windows AD Azure, and BeyondTrust" may have been compromised, too.

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Members of a child sex grooming gang have cost taxpayers more than £2m in legal aid bills while battling deportation - with £285,000 paid to the ringleader, it emerged yesterday.

Three in four people (76 per cent) support a national independent investigation into the sexual abuse and rape of children by men, a survey found.

Nicolas Cage has been accused of 'enabling' son Weston who faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly attacking his mother Christina Fulton in April 2024.

Two men were allegedly caught on camera dumping gasoline and setting it alight immediately before the devastating Palisades fire broke out, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

On a humid June evening in 2023, a middle-aged man called Liam Byrne was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences while dining with family at a restaurant in the Majorcan town of Alcudia.